...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
commanders captured by troops at Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
City’s Shifa Hospital.
During the two-week-long operation at Shifa, the IDF says soldiers managed to detain more than 500 members of terror groups, including top operatives.
The IDF says that among those captured is Ashraf Ibrahim Samur, the deputy head of the information department in Hamas’s intelligence division.
In an interrogation video released by the IDF, Samur is seen describing to Shin Bet interrogators that several Hamas units, including its intelligence division, operated out of Shifa.
Samur says that Hamas began to regroup at the hospital two days after the IDF initially left it last year. If accurate, that means that the terror group entered the hospital at the start of the seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas in late November.
Additional Hamas commanders captured at Shifa are named by the IDF as Hashem Sarsour, head of the emergency committees in East Gaza City; Mehdi Abu Hassanin, head of internal security in the Gaza City; Ibrahim Tamraz, head of police operations in Gaza City; Mahmoud Ajour, head of "policy decisions committee"; Asama al-Tata; head of the Shejaiya Brigade’s rocket unit; and Diab al-Tahar, a senior member of the emergency committees in south Gaza.
The IDF also names four more Islamic Jihad terror operatives captured at Shifa: Hassan Aki, the deputy commander of a special rocket unit; Bakr Jaabari, an assistant to the former head of Islamic Jihad’s northern Gaza region; Muhammad Mali, responsible for finances for Islamic Jihad; and Musa al-Imawi, the deputy commander of the group’s Sabrah district.
🔴 Senior Hamas military intelligence officer during an ISA interrogation:
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 3, 2024
"Units of the military intelligence operated from Shifa Hospital. The Interior Ministry, the Emergency Committees and the government of Hamas also worked from there. It's a safe place.”
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IDF: Forces in Gaza destroy Hamas infrastructure, capture or kill terror operatives
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops are continuing to battle Hamas in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the military says in a morning update.
The IDF says the 7th Armored Brigade located weapons in Khan Younis, while the Air Force and combat engineers destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including weapon depots, in the same area.
The Commando Brigade and Givati Brigade have been operating in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis, where over the past day the troops killed and captured numerous terror operatives, according in the IDF.
The IDF says fighter jets struck several booby-trapped buildings and tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the past day, and other aircraft hit dozens more sites, including weapon depots, rocket launchers, and buildings used by Hamas.